Ingredients
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- 1/2 pound fresh green beans
- 1/2 pound sliced bacon – 5-6 slices
- 2–3 T brown sugar
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- First, preheat your oven to 375°.
- Next, rinse the green beans in a colander with water. Then, trim the green beans. You will want to leave them long for this recipe (versus cutting beans in half). Green bean trimming tips: You can do this most efficiently by piling up 10 – 15 beans, lining them up on one side and cutting the ends all at once. I usually just snap off or cut the end of the bean where it connected to the green bean plant before. It’s not necessary to cut both ends unless you prefer it this way.
- Next, cut uncooked bacon in half. Then, to allow for easy clean up, place foil down on the bottom of a baking sheet. The bacon and beans will cook simultaneously as bundles in the oven. Protecting your pan with foil is a time saver for clean up later!
- Next, gather about 5 – 6 long green beans and wrap with 1 slice of the halved bacon, wrapping around the green beans from one end to the other, candy cane style. You may need to adjust how many beans per bundle based on how much bacon you have. But just make small adjustments as you are wrapping them to use all of the beans.
- Place the bundle on the baking sheet. Continue this process, to make bundles and place on the baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Try to use all of your beans and bacon, yielding approximately 10-12 bundles, depending on the number of slices of bacon in your package.
- Next, sprinkle brown sugar (total of about 2-3 T) over all of the tops of the bundles, trying to keep the sugar on the top of the bacon bundles and not falling off onto the pan, as best you can.
- Then, using a pepper grinder, season the bundles lightly. Be mindful to pepper them lightly, as to not overpower the flavor of the bacon and sweetness of the brown sugar. (Due to the saltiness of the bacon, salt is unnecessary for these beans. )
- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 25